Google’s homepage doodles just keep getting better. Today’s Google is in honour of Freddie Mercury’s 65th Birthday, and it’s awesome. More »
Queen Elizabeth II is visiting Ireland, a momentous occasion that’s supposed to signal reconciliation of the two countries. But not everyone is happy! Just hours before the Queen arrived, a pipe bomb was found on a bus headed to Dublin. More »
Despite Bill Gates being knighted by the Queen in 2005, Steve Jobs was cockblocked in 2009 – and all because he refused to speak at a political conference. More »
Muppets doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Mario dancing to Don’t stop me now. It seems Queen is having a bit of an internet meme resurgence of late. And now some clever sod has gone and combined Queen and Battlestar Galactica to create a mashup of epic proportions, with a solid dose of hilarity thrown in. More »
It must be Queen video recreation week. First there was the Muppets’ take on Bohemian Rhapsody, and now this Mario take of Don’t stop me now. Is there no end to Queen fans’ creativity? I hope not…
Not to be outdone by Barack Obama, THQ has sent off a golden Nintendo Wii to Buckingham Palace where the queen will likely receive it and think it’s a humidor or something.
I can’t think of a more old school, geeky tribute to Queen than a band comprised of an Atari 800XL, 8-inch floppy disk, 3.5-in hard drive and HP Scanjet 3C. If only it sounded better.
We don’t know how much it cost her, but word is that the Queen of England has put down some mega-bucks to buy the world’s largest wind turbine. The 10-megawatt monster machine built by Clipper Windpower of Carpinteria, California will have a wingspan larger than two soccer fields and will stand 574 feet tall when completed. The windmill is expected to displace two million barrels of oil as well as 724,000 tons of CO2 over its lifetime. It will also serve as the flagship for Clipper’s Britannia Project, an effort to produce massive new turbines on deep-sea floating platforms. If all goes as planned, the Queen’s windmill will light up thousands of British homes starting in 2012. [CNN]
